Vancouver mayor speaks out against casino project
Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard spoke out Monday morning against the $510 million Cowlitz casino complex proposed for a 152-acre parcel at the La Center Junction.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- One of the oldest casinos in Europe, at Baden Baden in Germany, was opened in 1748 by Edouard Benazet, who employed Parisian craftsmen to design the stylish rooms.
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